Table 1: Functional traits used in the study, their role in tree functional strategy [20], the range of values represented by the 53 species in this study, the range of values for tree species of French Guiana [20], and associations between functional traits and expected growth response to water availability reported in the literature.

Range of traits values of the Paracou sample, brange of traits values of French Guiana (FG) extract from the BRIDGE database [20], cexpected growth response to wet conditions, dexpected growth response to drought conditions, *(+) trees with high values of a given functional trait are expected to grow faster, and (−) trees with high values of a given functional trait are expected to grow slower.